Yeah so apparently there is a good combination out there in the realm of beer and cookies. Leave it to me on Thanksgiving to figure out that a Sam Adams Brown Ale and a chocolate-chip cookie go hand in hand. Might have to do with the caramel/malt combination that they use in the brown ale, [...]

Excellent article on the ISC diary for what you might want to have when you inevitably make that family pc-repair call this holiday weekend - http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3669

Simple process checker for linux.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Checks to see if service is still running, just throw into cron
 
my $service = "/var/run/daemon.pid";
my $restart = "/etc/init.d/daemon restart";
 
open (PROCESS, "$service") or die "PID file not valid or can’t open!\n";
while (< PROCESS >) {
($pid = $_) =~ /(\d+)/;
}
close (PROCESS);
 
chomp($pid);
$checkit = "ps -p [...]

Good stuff - http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/oof-spam-suppression.html

By hottest, I assume they mean most popular, because I can think of several that are more worthwhile in terms of knowledge gained in pursuit of. Got GIAC?
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=223